Pauline Strong

Interests

Biography

Pauline Strong received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Colorado College and graduate degrees in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago.  She has published on the representation of Native American cultures and identities in North American literature, scholarship, film, art, museums, sports events, legislation, social movements, and youth organizations. Her current research concerns the role that 20th-century youth organizations played in the development of racialized and gendered U.S. citizens.

She is the author of Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narrative (1999)and co-editor (with Sergei Kan) of New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, Representations (2006). Her articles appear in journals and anthologies in the fields of American Studies, cultural studies, history, media studies, Native American Studies, and sports studies as well as anthropology (see CV).

She currently directs the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, which offers a variety of programs  for intellectual engagement across the campus and community. Previously she served as President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology and Councilor of the American Society for Ethnohistory.  Her community service includes serving as President of the Board of the Balcones Council of Camp Fire USA.

Undergraduate courses

• Research and Writing Culture (FS 301)
• Cultural Anthropology (ANT 301)
• Indians of the American Southwest (ANT 322M/AMS 321)
• American Indian Cultures North of Mexico (ANT 336L/AMS 321)
• Peoples of the North (ANT/CREES)

Graduate courses

• Introduction to Graduate Social Anthropology (ANT 392)
• Introduction to Graduate Folklore and Public Culture (ANT 394)
• Introduction to Graduate Feminist Anthropology and Archaeology (ANT 391)
• Indigenous Cultural Politics (ANT 394)
• History and Culture of Youth Organizations (ANT 391/RGK)
• Representation (ANT 394)
• Workshop in Theory and Method (ANT 391)